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what browser does Wine use?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. Dezember 2025 - 20:42

Dumb question. When I open wine for my proton games and need a browser, wine opens.

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Random fps drops

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. Dezember 2025 - 20:40

recently ive been noticing fps drops on my game at random points (i go from 80-ish fps to 12 and below) im not sure if specs matter but my specs are: Hardware Model: HP HP 250 G6 NoteBook
Memory: 8.0 GiB
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-7020U CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4
Graphics: Mesa INtel HD GRaphics 620 (KBL GT2)
disk capacity: 500.1gb. I have around 80-120 fps but drops to 7 for a few seconds

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how to get RAID Shadow Legends to work on Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. Dezember 2025 - 20:35

first: this is my helping a friend, they already have the RAID: Shadow Legends app on their android phone and i am posting this in several [i hope] relevant subreddits.

2nd: per the Plarium site, the way to link accounts is to download their launcher [which is native win/Mac only] and get info off that, then use it's links to get it to use the same account on Steam.

3rd: per Lutris the way to play RAID on Linux....is Steam

so, if anyone knows, how do i, a "not noob" but not "Well Learned" in Linux help him get his Android/Google Play Store account linked to a new Linux Mint laptop Steam account?

thanks for any help, since i currently am a tad stumped. [for my desktop i had to use the Win install to get everything linked, so that i could then play on my EndeavourOS partition]

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I’m completely questioning my sanity right now

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. Dezember 2025 - 19:43

So here is the deal, I desperately want to get away from windows. I’ve tinkered with Linux a few times over the years but have been essentially a windows user for 25 years. I’ve been researching for days and getting opinions from all the content creators. I’ve set up a ventoy drive and been hopping around different distros getting a feel for them

Here in lies my problems, for 1 I use an Nvidia gpu. Now I am perfectly willing to sell my 5070 ti and go amd with a 9070 xt however only if necessary. And there in lies problem number 2. I swear every benchmark comparison I find is different. With some making it seem like Nvidia is essentially broken to others saying everything is perfect and the 5070ti beats out the 9070ti…

Problem number 3, picking a distro. I’m strongly leaning towards Cachy, Garuda, or Nobara because the idea of rolling updates (especially if I’m Nvidia) seems like the best idea. I’ve also considered possibly Bazzite but most of the benchmarks I’ve seen on bazzite give Nvidia a serious disadvantage.

Also I do have a steam deck and so I am familiar with how it operates, starting in big picture mode with the option of a desktop as needed. I kinda like the idea of this as my pc is essentially an HTPC.

Honest advice, tips, suggestions would be incredibly helpful. Thanks

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mic sounds bad in discord but sounds completely fine when switching to windows (dual boot)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. Dezember 2025 - 19:27

as the title says the mic sounds terrible on linux (mint cinnamon) but switching to windows it works fine, im using a headset as my mic and i can confirm its not using any other input

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Help with compatibility

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. Dezember 2025 - 19:18

I managed to dual boot ubuntu and windows and want to play some of my gamepass games but ive tried using lutris and bottles to no avail i think maybe its because the game i tried(the original hollow knight) is just an exe and not an installer but im not sure i also tried adding it to my steam and using proton any help or other methods would be appreciated and just a note i cannot buy any games. any help is appreciated thanks

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Messed up resolution when using two monitors

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. Dezember 2025 - 18:15

Ive been using cachyos and ive been having problems with my setup. I use two monitors, my laptop screen and an external monitor, but whenever i play some games, the resolution is way higher than what my monitor outputs. This only happens with two monitors, and i dont have this issue when im only using one or the other. Anyone know whats going on here and have a fix?

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fps issues

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. Dezember 2025 - 18:11

Hi recently i got linux (Pop os if it matters) on my brothers laptop but he's having issues when he wants to play roblox as its always under 30 fps and drops from 28-15, im not entirely sure on what went wrong as I also use linux but i havent encountered this issue before

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Xbox Controller connected but not working

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. Dezember 2025 - 18:02

Hello, after hours and hours of search i'm coming here for helping me
I installed Zorin OS on my girlfriend's laptop and Xbox Controller worked after some hours of search and driver, but it finally worked

I installed Zorin OS on my PC but i face the same issues, and tried everything, it connect, but is not recognized at all by anything
I installed Xone, xpad, xpadneo xboxdrv and nothing work

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Ready to make a switch!

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. Dezember 2025 - 17:53

Hello everyone. I am a semi experienced user of Linux and use Mint for my "work" laptop (Huawei Matebook X Pro 2018) since Windows 11 is very bloated and it slowed it down considerably and it works like a charm. Other than work (I use it mostly for biomedical statistics and office suites - I use WPS because it is very similar to MS Office) I use it for guitar related stuff and some video editing - DaVinci Resolve, Reaper, Tracktion Waveform and Guitarix (with low latency kernel and my iRig HD2 audio interface) and everything works as well or better than Windows (well... I miss some plug-ins but there are okay alternatives).

Anyway... I have a gaming laptop with Windows 11 (ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 - i9 13900H + GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop) and I'd like to switch to Linux as well...

All the distros you are praising here are either Arch or Fedora based, and I feel best with Ubuntu based distros so I'd like to install Ubuntu Studio (because of RT kernel and audio/video stuff) and I'd like to hear your opinions whether that is a good idea (I also prefer KDE but my KDE Neon install started acted weird - probably due to pushing latest KDE Plasma updates).

Thanks for your input

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Please help what Linux distro should I use

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. Dezember 2025 - 17:33

Hello, so I want to install Linux on this laptop, but I don’t know what version and I don’t want it to be really hard. I’m just getting into this but I want the OS to be good for gaming and all around and I want it to be almost like windows so it’s easy to use so what Linux distro should I use

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Warcraft 3 Reforged on Arch with Lutris?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. Dezember 2025 - 17:25

Hello folks,

so im trying to get Warcraft 3 Reforged running on Arch.

  1. I installed Battlenet via lutris on wine 10.16 staging (64).
  2. I downloaded Wc3 in battlenet which worked just fine.
  3. It even starts the game and let me watch the beautiful cinematics. But i cant get a Menu. I end up in the animated background with a working mouse and wc3 cursor, but no Menu at all. Tried D3DX9, D3DX11 and even OpenGL. Wine cfg is Win10 (also tried Win11, but same issue).

My Specs:
Ryzen 7 5800X3D
64GB Ram
RTX 3080

On winedb i read that wc3 reforged runs on wine 10.17. But i cant use 10.17 with lutris.

Can anyone provide some help with this?

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ELDEN RING Nightreign multiplayer not working

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. Dezember 2025 - 16:17

Hello, im not new in linux gaming, tho im having issues with ELDEN RING Nightreign on my main pc, the game itslef go online and i can TRY to join my friend, but in the end cant join, and the solo matchmaking take forever (and find no one to play with), i know the problem with EAC and linux, but for sure this is not the case, coz the game works fine on my Steam Deck (SteamOS, i didn't change it), i try to copy the files from there but the problem remain, the game works on my windows partition, so no corrupted file asw, i really cant understand what is the problem

Distro: Arch 6.17.9

DE: Gnome 49.2

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